[Glossary] Definition of Expiate

1. (Clark 1993, 2): "To expiate, and this is the word contemporary translators have substituted [for propitiate], means to extinguish guilt, or to atone for, by suffering, by paying a penalty, or in some way or other."

To expiate means to atone for or to extinguish guilt by some means.


Reference:

Clark, Gordon H. 1993. New Heavens, New Earth: A Commentary on First and Second Peter. Jefferson, Maryland: The Trinity Foundation.

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